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Protests at Japan's Yasukuni Shrine on the Anniversary of The End of WWII

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September 11, 2013

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Aug 15, 1945 - Japan officially surrendered and thereby ended World War II. Every year nationalistic rightwing groups gather to protest the Peace Anti-War demonstrators at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. Yasukuni Shrine dates back to the mid-19th Century and it is a shrine for the souls of all those who died serving the Emperor. In 1978 the spirits of Class A war criminals were enshrined there and subsequent official government visits there have often sparked outrage with Asian countries who suffered from Japan's actions in WWII.

On the anniversary of Japan's surrender, a peace protest is organized which marches near the shrine. The protestors marched through a gauntlet of rightwingers surrounded by police in riot gear. Occasionally some of the rightwingers would make for the peace party but they would always get stopped by the police - as if by design.

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